Thank you so much man. Your post saved a lot of my time.
On Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 8:53:39 PM UTC+5:30, Luke Bigum wrote:
>
> Not sure if people are already aware of this, but it might save
> someone some time in the future. I've been tracking down the following
> error today, it's rather unhelpful in telling you where the problem is
> in your manifests:
>
> # puppetd --test
> info: Retrieving plugin
> err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Could not intern
> from pson: Could not convert from pson: Could not find relationship
> target "Service[]"
>
> The problem is the parser using an empty string as a resource name
> which I arrived at by using a variable inside double quotes for a
> resource declaration. I did this for style (or have been until now) -
> I like to have user defined strings in quotes so it easily
> distinguishes between them and puppet keywords, plus for syntax
> highlighting, etc. Turns out this personal preference has shot me in
> the foot as the difference between the error messages for an empty
> string versus an undefined variable is rather big.
>
> See this unhelpful message:
>
> $service_name = "httpd"
> service { "$servicename": ensure => running }
> err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Could not intern
> from pson: Could not convert from pson: Could not find relationship
> target "Service[]"
>
> versus this:
>
> $service_name = "httpd"
> service { "$servicename": ensure => running }
> err: /Stage[main]/Puppet_dashboard::Service/Service[undef]/ensure:
> change from stopped to running failed: Could not start Service[undef]:
> Execution of '/sbin/service undef start' returned 1: at /etc/puppet/
> environments/testing/modules/httpd/manifests/service.pp:26
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